Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Criminal Justice, Forensic Mental Health, & Legal Implications

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic and multifaceted metabolic disease and is considered a significant public health issue and global epidemic. Designed for professionals working in criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal settings, this training provides attendees […]

Social Services Advocate

The Public Defender Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the public defender agency of Massachusetts, is seeking applicants for one full-time Social Services Advocate position in our Boston Office and one full-time position in our Malden Office.  As […]

Social Work Meetup: Research Swap!

We all rely on research or data sets to help us in our mitigation development, so let’s have a research swap! Bring a pdf or link to some of your favorite research articles that you use to help bolster your […]

Social Work Meetup and a Discussion of Peer Navigator Roles

This week’s meetup will discuss peer navigator roles, which offices have peer navigators, how peers are utilized as part of the team, and what special expertise peers bring to this work. The role of “peer navigator” can be broad to […]

Social Work Meetup on Working With Older Adults

This social worker meetup will discuss how we advocate for older adults intersecting with the criminal legal system. Whether it is through case management, mitigation, or other advocacy, this population requires a different approach and cognizance of neurocognitive disease and […]

Social Work Meetup: Tuesday Meetup on Where Have the Forensic Experts Gone

In this special Tuesday edition of our Social Work Meetup we are going to discuss where have all the forensic experts gone (and now what does your team do)! Have you found a more limited access to/supply of forensic experts […]

Social Worker Supervisor Discussion

Last month we continued talking about training and then moved into caseload standards and the topic became a jumping off point to talk about social work roles in the office, how to manage time and bandwidth when caseloads are crushing, […]

Investigator Meetup: Open Chat

Hey Investigators, We understand how things can get stressful, and we’re here to make it better. Our meetup? It’s more of an open conversation—no strict agenda. It’s Friday, a perfect day to let off steam! Bring your complaints, quirks, and […]

Social Work Meetup: Addressing Scarcity as a Mitigation Theme

This week’s meetup will focus on scarcity (poverty) as a mitigation theme. This topic can include so many approaches from how scarcity relates to social determinants of health, to lack of access and opportunity, to intergenerational lack of assets (and […]

Social Worker Meetup: What And How Are We Learning?

We talk about training for our jobs, but what are we learning in, on, and for the job? This meetup focuses on the topic of what and how we are learning in our job. Are you attending conferences? Reviewing materials […]